Word of the Week: Jasmine

The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.

mòlìhuā 茉莉花

Term used by Chinese netizens to call for pro-democracy street protests in February of 2011.